This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Medieval > Mediaval India – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Mediaval India Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The medieval Indian Sultan who has been called the "Prince of Moneyera" is A) Alauddin Khalji. B) Sher Shah Suri. C) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq. 2. Dhrupad Dhamar style of singing was started by A) Vishnu Digambar Paluskar. B) Tansen. C) Raja Man Singh Tomar. D) Amir Khusrau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vishnu Digambar Paluskar. 3. Which of the following measures of Sher Shah Suri greatly helped in the promotion of trade and commerce? A) He got many important roads built. B) The roads were very safe. C) He abolished all internal duties and taxes were levied only at the points of import and sales. D) He built several sarais on the highways. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He abolished all internal duties and taxes were levied only at the points of import and sales. 4. Which of the following battles helped Shershah to establish Suri Dynasty? A) Battle of Kanauj 1540. B) Battle of Chausa 1539. C) Battle of Duhariya 1532. D) Battle of Chandewar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Battle of Chausa 1539. 5. Akbar granted the present site of Amritsar to the Sikh Guru A) Angad. B) Arjan. C) Ram Das. D) Amar Das. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amar Das. 6. The Khajuraho shrines built by the Chandella rulers are dedicated to A) Brahma and Vishnu. B) Vishnu and Laxmi. C) Shiva and Surya. D) Shiva and Parvati. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shiva and Parvati. 7. Which Sultan's reign witnessed as much as half of the produce being charged as revenue from certain provinces? A) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq. B) Alauddin Khalji. C) Firuz Shah Tughluq. D) Ghiyasuddin Tughluq. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alauddin Khalji. 8. Who among the following was the religious guru of Shivaji? A) Jnaneshwar. B) Ram Das. C) Tukaram. D) Eknath. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ram Das. 9. Who among the following is called Zinda Peer? A) Aurangzeb. B) Babur. C) Humayun. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aurangzeb. 10. When Nader Shah invaded India, who among the following was emperor at Delhi? A) Alamgir II. B) Muhammad Shah. C) Alamgir I. D) Farrukhsiyar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muhammad Shah. 11. Who among the following was known as Lakha Baksh? A) Mohammed Ghori. B) Balban. C) Iltutmish. D) Qutubuddin Aibak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Qutubuddin Aibak. 12. Alberuni came to India along with A) Muhammad-bin-Qasim. B) Muhammad Ghuri. C) Mahmud Ghazni. D) Timur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mahmud Ghazni. 13. Nur Jehan is associated with the construction of A) Her husband's tomb at Shahdara (Lahore). B) Her father ltimad-ud-Daulah's tomb at Agra. C) Akbar's tomb at Sikandra (Agra). D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 14. Babar's autobiography, called Tuzuk-i-Baburi or Baburnaman, Which is reckoned among "the most enthralling and romantic works in the literature of all times" is written in A) Turki. B) Persian. C) Urdu. D) Arabic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turki. 15. Akbar was enthroned in a garden at A) Kabul. B) Kalanaur. C) Ajmer. D) Gaur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kalanaur. 16. Mumtaj Mahal died at A) Agra. B) Ajmer. C) Burhanpur. D) Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burhanpur. 17. In which year Arabs invaded Sindh? A) 710 A.D. B) 715 A.D. C) 712 A.D. D) 700 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 712 A.D. 18. The later Mughal King, popularly known as Shah-i-Bekhabar (the Heedless King), was A) Bahadur Shah. B) Jahandar Shah. C) Muhammad Shah. D) Shah Alam I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bahadur Shah. 19. Krishna I, who was a king of Rashtrakuta dynasty is related to which of the following? A) Ajanata Caves. B) Shiva Temples of Ellora. C) Khajuraho Temples. D) Ellora caves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shiva Temples of Ellora. 20. Who has written the compilation of poems, Prithviraj Raso? A) Prithvi Raj III. B) Chand Bardai. C) Purandara Dasa. D) Kabir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chand Bardai. 21. During the course of his numerous invasions, Muhammad Ghori (Before his conquest in the Second Battle of Tarain) was defeated by A) Chalukya king Bhima II of Gujarat. B) Prithviraja Chauhan III of Ajmer. C) Both A and B above. D) And the Chandela king Paramardi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and B above. 22. Under the Mughals the cotton goods were exported to A) Africa. B) Sumatra. C) Japan. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Africa. 23. Muhammad Ghori laid the foundation of the Turkish Empire in India by defeating A) Prithviraj Chauhan in Second Battle of Tarain. B) Jayachanda in the Battle of Chandawar. C) The Chandelas. D) Both A and B above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B above. 24. 'Mattavllasa-Pradhasana' was written by A) Simhavishnu. B) Narasimha Varman II. C) Narasimha Varman I. D) Mahendra Varman I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mahendra Varman I. 25. Who among the following was the father of Harshavardhana? A) Grahavarman. B) Ashoka. C) Prabhakarvardhana. D) Rajyvardhana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prabhakarvardhana. 26. Whom did the Lingayats worship? A) Vishnu. B) Ganesha. C) Surya. D) Shiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shiva. 27. The East India Company was founded in India during the reign of A) Aurangzeb. B) Jahangir. C) Akbar. D) Shah Jahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Akbar. 28. Ghazi Malik was the founder and first ruler of which among the following dynasties? A) Khilji Dynasty. B) Mamluk Dynasty. C) Tughlaq Dynasty. D) Slave Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tughlaq Dynasty. 29. The diary of Athanasius (Afanasi) Nikitin, the first Russian traveller to India, is entitled A) A passage to India. B) The land of miracles. C) The journey beyond the three seas. D) Travel to the land of honey and gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The journey beyond the three seas. 30. Which among the following dynasties gave rise to a worship of Satya Pir, a common God which was very much equivalent to Satyanarayan among Hindus? A) Sayyid dynasty. B) Hussein Shahi dynasty. C) Lodi Dynasty. D) Samma Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hussein Shahi dynasty. 31. In the council of 8 Ministers of Shivaji which was called as Ashtapradhan, who was known as chief Minister and was responsible for General Administration? A) Peshwa. B) Sachiv or Shuru Navis. C) Majumdar. D) Amatya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peshwa. 32. The Buddhist universities of Nalanda and Vikramshila in Bihar were destroyed during the invasions of A) Mahmud of Ghazni. B) Muhammad Ghori. C) Bakhtiyar Khalji. D) All Mardan Khalji. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bakhtiyar Khalji. 33. Hemu, whom Akbar defeated In the Second Battle of Panipat (1556), was A) Minister of Sikandar Shah Suri. B) Minister of Muhammad Adil Shah. C) Ruler of Rewari. D) Prime Minister of Rana Udai Singh of Mewar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minister of Muhammad Adil Shah. 34. Jammi Mosque was built at A) Sambhal. B) Delhi. C) Agra. D) Lahore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sambhal. 35. Pakistan Resolution or Lahore Resolution was a formal political statement adopted by the Muslim League in which year? A) 1947. B) 1940. C) 1942. D) 1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1940. 36. Akbar founded the Din-i-Ilahi primarily to A) Establish a national religion Which would be acceptable to the Muslims and the Hindus. B) Ensure racial and communal harmony. C) Found a religious institution. D) Put an end to differences between Hindus and Muslims. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Establish a national religion Which would be acceptable to the Muslims and the Hindus. 37. In which year Akbar's reign ended? A) 1610. B) 1600. C) 1615. D) 1605. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1605. 38. Tarabai, who conducted the affairs of the Maratha government from 1700 to 1707 AD, was the widow of the Maratha King A) Shivaji II. B) Shivaji III. C) Shambhaji. D) Raja Ram. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raja Ram. 39. The greatest historian of the reign of Akbar, who wrote Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari, was A) Nizamuddin Ahmad. B) Abul Fazl. C) Abdas Khan Arwani. D) Abdur Qadir Badauni. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abul Fazl. 40. Babar was originally the ruler of A) Kabul. B) Persia. C) Fargana. D) Khandahar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fargana. 41. Which among the following Mughal painters is credited for painting Siberian Crane and the Dodo for the first time? A) Abu al-Hasan. B) Bishandas. C) Farrukh Beg. D) Ustad Mansur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ustad Mansur. 42. During the reign of which among the following rulers, Malik Muhammad Jaisi completed his epic work 'Padmavat'? A) Shahjahan. B) Jahangir. C) Akbar. D) Shershah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shershah. 43. Khan Khanan rendered Babur's Memoires into A) Sanskrit. B) Urdu. C) Hindi. D) Persian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persian. 44. What are the sculptures of the Mathura School of Art made out of? A) Marble. B) Wood. C) Granite. D) Red Sandstone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red Sandstone. 45. Under the Mughals the Commander-in-Chief of the Army was A) Mansabdar. B) Zamindar. C) The crown prince. D) Emperor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emperor. 46. Original name of Mumtaj Mahal was A) Mihr-un-Nisa. B) Jagat Gosami. C) Arzumand Banu. D) Man Bai. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arzumand Banu. 47. Who among the following is said to have witnessed the reigns of eight Delhi Sultans? A) Amir Khusrau. B) Minhaj-us-Siraj. C) Ziauddin Barani. D) Shams-I-Siraj Afif. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amir Khusrau. 48. The English and the Dutch were firmly established in all the parts of the Coast from Sind to Bengal by the middle of the A) 15th Century. B) 18th Century. C) 17th Century. D) 16th Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 17th Century. 49. Who among the following was considered as the "mixture of opposites" .? A) Kaiqubad. B) Firuz Tughlaq. C) Mohammed bin Tughlaq. D) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mohammed bin Tughlaq. 50. Which among the following Mughal emperors prohibited the use of tobacco? A) Babur. B) Jahnagir. C) Aurangzeb. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jahnagir. 51. The first Muslim ruler to conquer southern India was A) Aurangzeb. B) Mohammad Ghuri. C) Babar. D) Alaudd'in Khalji. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alaudd'in Khalji. 52. The Mughal Emperor who caused the murder of Guru Arjan was A) Shah Jahan. B) Babar. C) Akbar. D) Jahangir. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jahangir. 53. Slaves who were in great demand under the Mughals were A) Abyssinians. B) Africans. C) Persians. D) Afghans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abyssinians. 54. Battle of Talikota" resulted in the end of which of the following? A) Deccan Sultanates. B) Madurai Sultanate. C) Pandya Empire. D) Vijayanagar Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vijayanagar Empire. 55. Rihla" was a work of which of the following? A) Muhammad al-Idrisi. B) Mir Hasan Dehlvi. C) Malik Murtaza. D) Ibn Battuta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ibn Battuta. 56. Ayagara in Vijayanagar were A) Governors of Provinces. B) Adiministrators of Nadus. C) Village functionaries. D) Administrators of Kottams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Village functionaries. 57. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to issue regular currency and to declare Delhi as the capital of his empire? A) Nasiruddin Mahmood. B) Iltutmish. C) Aram Shah. D) Balban. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iltutmish. 58. Market control had been first introduced in Medieval India by A) Ghiyasuddin Balban. B) Firuz Shah Tughluq. C) Iltutmish. D) Alauddin Khalji. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alauddin Khalji. 59. Who was the ruler of Chittor, when Alauddin Khalji attacked and conquered it in 1303 AD? A) Rana Sanga. B) Rana Ratan Singh. C) Rana Hammir. D) Rana Kumbha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rana Ratan Singh. 60. What was the capital of Shivaji's Kingdom? A) Pune. B) Raigarh. C) Karwar. D) Purandhar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raigarh. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesMediaval India Quiz 1Mediaval India Quiz 2Mediaval India Quiz 3Mediaval India Quiz 4Mediaval India Quiz 6Mediaval India Quiz 7Mediaval India Quiz 8Mediaval India Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books